Removable heel



KNUTE H. ANDERSON,

PATENT OFFICE. T

or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. I

REMOVABLE HEEL.

Application filed April 4, 1925.' Serial No. 20,746.

This invention relates to improvements in removable heels for shoes and boots and has as one of its objects to provide a heel which may be readily secured in place and, when it becomes worn, may be readily removed and a new heel or lift substituted therefor. Another object of the invention is to provide a removable heel consisting of a lift which may be readily permanently secured to the heel of any ordinary shoe or boot, and a lift adapted to be removably securedm assembled relation to the first mentioned 11ft, the first mentioned lift constituting a holding or attaching lift and the second mentioned lift constituting a wear lift, and 1n this connection, the invention has as its object to provide an extremely simple and convenient means for securing the wear lift 1n place so that by the use of an ordinary screw driver it may be applied or removed.

Another object of the inventlon is to so construct the heel that the same will be exceptionally durable and substantial and not liable to be torn loose or in any way become displaced from the shoe or boot.

In the accompanying drawings: I

Figure 1 is a vertical front to rear sectional view through a shoe heel embodying the invention.

Figure 2 is a horizontal sectional view taken substantially on the line of Figure'l, looking in the direction indicated by the arrows.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary bottom plan view of the attaching lift of the heel.

In the drawings, the numeral 1 indicates that lift of an ordinary shoe heel which is secured directly to the shoe or boot. The heel embodying the invention comprises an attaching lift which is indicated in general by the numeral 2, and a wear lift which is indicated in general by the numeral 3. The lifts 2 and 3 may be of leather, fibre, or any other material found suitable for the purpose, and the lifts are of corresponding marginal contour and 0f the same contour as the permanent lift 1 of the shoe or boot. The lift 2 is formed in its upper. side with a shallow depression or recess 4 and with a number of circular openings 5, and disposed within the recess with its upper face flush with the upper face of the said lift 2, is a combined anchoring and reinforcing plate of metal, indicated by the numeral 6. The plate 6 may be of any desired marginal contour or outline but it is preferably formed in its opposite lateral edges with recesses 7 which may be shaped as shown in Figure 2 of the drawings, or of any other desired shape, these recesses defining lateral Wings 8 each of which is provided, upon its under side, with an integral bushing 9 which is snugly received in a respective one of the openings 5 in the body of the lift 2, the lower ends of the bushings being flush with the under face of the said lift. In the illustrated embodiment of the invention the anchoring plate 6 is preferably provided with three of the Wing portions at each side. and the plate is provided at its rear edge with a wing portion 10'which projects rearwardly therefrom and is provided with one of the integral bushings 9. The anchoring plate 6 is formed with transverse slots 11 and 12 which are located in the body portion of the plate and extend transversely thereof and between the respective wing portions 8, and the plate is further formed with a pair of slots 13 each located in one of the Wing portions of the remaining pair of such portions.

As illustrated in Figure 1 of the drawings, nails or other suitable securing elements, 14 are driven through the body of the lift 2 and through the slots 11, 12 and 13 and into the permanent lift 1 of the shoe, other nails 15 being driven through the body of the said lift 2 within the recesses 7 and into the said lift 1. Other nails 16 are erably driven through the lift 2 and into the lift 1 at opposite sides of the projecting wing portion 10, and in this manner the lift 2 is permanently secured to the lift 1.

The wear lift 8 is disposed against the under side of the lift 2 and is formed with a number of openings 17 which register with the lower ends of the bores of the bushings 9 of the anchoring plate 6, securing screws 18 being fitted through the openings 17 and threaded into the threaded bores 19 of the said bushings, the heads 20 of the screws beingxslotted, as usual, and being received in recesses 21 formed in the under side of the lift 3 concentric to the openings 17.

From the foregoing it will be evident that the lift 2 is permanently secured in place upon the lift 1 of the shoe and that the lift 3 may be readily secured in place by simply disposing the same against the lift 2, inserting the screws 18, and threading the same into place in the respective bushings 9. It will likewise be evident that the lift 3, when pref:

rplate it. becomes worn, may be readily removed by removing the screws 18, whereupon a new lift may be substituted therefor. It will be observed, furthermore, that no extraneous parts are associated with the lift 3 so that when the worn lift is discarded, no parts are discarded with it, and for this reason, economy is effected, not only in the cost of manufacture of the lift, but also in material.

Inasmuch as when the lift 2 is disposed against the lift 1 .to be secured thereto, the anchoring plate 6 is concealed from view, it is preferable that an outline of the said d and its slots be impressed in the under s1 e meral 22, so that the one applying the lift may readily determine where to drive the securing nails 14, 15 and 16 without likelihood of striking the'plate 6, this feature being best illustrated in Figure 3 of the drawings.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is:

A removable heel comprising an attaching lift to be secured permanently to the heel part of a shoe, an anchoring plate disposed of the lift 2, as indicated by the nu against theupper face of the attachinglift and having recesses in its margin and opening the said lift to the said heel part of the a shoe, the said attaching lift havin its upper face recessed to receive the attac ing plate with the up er face of the attaching plate flush with t e upper face of the lift and said lift having upon its under face a representation of the outline of the said anchoring plate and the openings therein whereby fasteners may be readily driven through the attaching lift without contacting with said plate, internally threaded bosses extending from said plate through said attaching lift, a wear lift disposed against the said under face of the attaching lift and formed with openings registering with the internally threaded bosses, and threaded fasteners fitted through the openings in said wear lift and screwed into engagement with the threaded bosses of the said plate.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

KNUTE H. ANDERSON. [L. s.l 

